Eraser



UNITED. STATES ATENT OFFICE.

OCTAVIUS GATE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

ERASE R.

.BI-ECIEICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 339,856, dated April13, 1886.

Application filed February 23, 1896. Serial No. 192.938. (No model.)

To all whom it nmy concern.-

Be it known that I, OCTAVIUS GATE, of Boston, in the county of Suffolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and use fulImprovementsin Erasers, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

This invention relates to an implement for erasing ink and other marksmade upon paper,and smoothing the paper surface so erased; and theimplement of this invention is composed of a head of steel having on itsopposite sides faces running at an angle and meeting at one end of thehead, and each face being provided with parallel projecting knife edgesor blades or flanges integral with the head,and their meeting endrounded or smoothed off, all substantially as hereinafter described.

ln the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,Figures 1 and 2 are views at different sides of the implement of thisinvention.

In the drawings, A is a handle, of any suitable materialsuch asivory,wood, &c.and B is the eraser-head, made of cast-steel or other suitablemetal or material, and secured in one end of the handle A in anysuitable manner. This head B, as shown, has two faces, C 0, meet ing atan angle, D, and each face C-has a series of angularly-projecting andparallel blades, ribs, or flanges, a, integral therewith. Each blade a,at and along its outer edge, d, is sharp ened, to render it and all ofthem capable of erasing ink and other marks from the surface of paper,8:0. The head B, at the angle D of meeting of its erasing-faces O C, isrounded or smoothed off, and thereby made suitable for use as aburnisher, to burnish or smooth off the surface of the paper previouslyscraped and abraded to remove ink-marks, &c., there from.

To use the implement described, place it by either side thereof, havingthe edge-sharpened projecting blades, ribs, or flanges on the paper, andmove it forward and back ward, said edges undersuch movement scrapingand erasing the paper as desired.

Having thus described my invention, I claim An ink-eraser consisting ofa head having on its opposite sides faces running at an angle andmeeting at one end, and each face provided with parallel projectingknife edges or blades integral with the head, and their meeting endsrounded or smoothed off, substantially as described, for the purposespecified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

OO'IAVIUS GATE.

\Vitnesses:

WM. S. BELLOWS, ALBERT W. BROWN.

